OUTRAGE in a Sentence
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97 example sentences for OUTRAGE, such as:
1. The response to the jury's verdict was one of outrage.
2. When he heard the news he reacted with a sense of outrage.
3. The suggestion inevitably provoked outrage from student leaders.
4. The incompetence and lazy of his students outrage him very much.
5. It outraged the public that the local authority decided to close the road.
2. When he heard the news he reacted with a sense of outrage.
3. The suggestion inevitably provoked outrage from student leaders.
4. The incompetence and lazy of his students outrage him very much.
5. It outraged the public that the local authority decided to close the road.
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Meanings and Examples of OUTRAGE
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outrage
v. violate the sacred character of a place or language
v. force (someone) to have sex against their will
Classic Sentence: (73 in 5 pages)
1 To keep in power he's been desperately manufacturing Klan outrage stories where none exist, telling of loyal Republicans being hung up by the thumbs and honest darkies lynched for rape.
2 Because you ARE; that's why; and your being in a place like this is a damnable outrage.
3 It's an all-fired outrage to tell any human creature that he's bound to hell.
4 Would now the wind but had a body; but all the things that most exasperate and outrage mortal man, all these things are bodiless, but only bodiless as objects, not as agents.
5 But apparently it was part of his fun to outrage her feelings as much as possible.
6 The truth might reveal fearful depravity or it might reveal the evidence of a rank outrage.
7 The outrage upon helpless childhood needed no avenging in this case; she was black.
8 Their counsel was heeded and not a hand was uplifted to resent the outrage; following the advice of the Free Speech, people left the city in great numbers.
9 The world looks on with wonder that we have conceded so much and remain law-abiding under such great outrage and provocation.
10 He listened attentively to my narration of the circumstances leading to the savage outrage, and gave many proofs of his strong indignation at it.
11 I was very hot indeed upon Old Orlick's daring to admire her; as hot as if it were an outrage on myself.
12 The one great outrage of her life, demanding to be constantly avenged, was the passage of a donkey over that immaculate spot.
13 There are people enough to tread upon me in my lowly state, without my doing outrage to their feelings by possessing learning.
14 Such an outrage; such an insult.
15 To follow them and break into their intimate conversation seemed to be an outrage, and yet my clear duty was never for an instant to let him out of my sight.
Example Sentence: (24 in 2 pages)
1 British newspapers were full of moral outrage at the weakness of other countries.
2 When he heard the news he reacted with a sense of outrage.
3 The whole affair is an outrage and the authorities have done nothing to prevent it.
4 The response to the jury's verdict was one of outrage.
5 The suggestion inevitably provoked outrage from student leaders.
6 WHO said that court action needed to be handled cautiously, discipline and litigation could awaken public outrage, and advance both justice and health.
7 Breaking the silence and expressing our outrage is the only way to even begin to make a change.
8 And so, under pretence of softening the previous outrage, of stroking and soothing me into placidity, you stick a sly penknife under my ear!
9 The incompetence and lazy of his students outrage him very much.
10 There is outrage in Indigenous communities over the recent acquittal of a Saskatchewan farmer of all charges relating to the shooting death of young Colten Boushie.
11 The outrage echoed that of 2015 when a Minnesota dentist killed a well-studied lion nicknamed Cecil after he was lured out of a protected Zimbabwe park.
12 Reports of Angela Merkel's phone being monitored by the US National Security Agency were met in Germany not just with outrage, but a more familiar German emotion: schadenfreude.
13 I was absolutely outraged that I could be even mentioned in an article of this kind.
14 It outraged the public that the local authority decided to close the road.
15 Reports of torture and mass executions in Serbia's detention camps have outraged the world's religious leaders.